The two active shooter terrorist attack in San Bernardino became into a high-tech case when the phone of one of the shooters was obtained by police, which couldn’t open it because of encryption. This turned into a legal battle between the state and Apple, the creator of the phone, who were asked - and refused - to give access to the phone and to the information on it. This has inspired a lot of research and discussion of what rights we have as users for encryption for password protection, and sh...
Sep 21, 2020•34 min•Ep. 26
Freedom of speech is almost a sacred thing in the US and revered in many democratic countries. But in recent years, there is talk of its abuse to propagate hate speech online, and the need to limit it as a result. What is hate speech (or dangerous speech), what’s unique about it online, what are its real dangers, how should it be dealt with, and at what cost? All this in this episode of the Lex Cybernetica , the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Federmann Cyber Security Research Center’s podcast, w...
Sep 06, 2020•29 min•Ep. 25
Legal accountability means that an unlawful act does not go with impunity. When a state carries out a cyber operation against another state, it’s accountable under international law towards the international community. However, international law doesn’t always have teeth to hold the rogue actor accountable. Additional challenges include attributing the act to a state, which might be using proxy groups and technology to conceal its identity and the actions themselves; and even the mere definition...
Jul 24, 2020•34 min•Ep. 24
Can we trust decisions made by algorithms? Those are utilized by managers to choose employees, judges to give verdicts, and much more. While algorithms are often considered unbiased, or at least less biased than humans, they are in truth as biased as the data-sets that they were trained on, and as they were programmed to be - by oversight or design. The problems with AI decision making, and the right to have a human decision maker in the loop, are the subject of this episode of Lex Cybernetica ,...
Jul 02, 2020•30 min•Ep. 23
May 10, 2020•33 min•Ep. 22
While cyber threats have been around for decades, cyber insurance is still a fledgling, mainly American, $4-6 bn industry, that's estimated to grow to $20 bn by 2025. In Israel, only 13% of local companies have cyber insurance, according to a June 2019 survey of executives, decision makers and insurance companies by the Israel National Cyber Directorate ( Hebrew press release ). The main reasons for not having such insurance are lack of awareness to cyber threats and a lack of financial viabilit...
Apr 05, 2020•32 min•Ep. 21
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Nov 06, 2019•28 min•Ep. 19
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Dec 02, 2018•54 min•Ep. 8
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